Kangaroos in plague numbers

ABC 891 Adelaide (Adelaide), Drive, 06/05/2008 04:18PM

Compere Annette Marner says some weeks ago she was driving along National Highway One between Two Wells and Dublin and her headlights were on dimmed. She says there was a western grey kangaroo, which was in the middle of the road. She says she managed to get around it and it did not move.
She says regional callers said they felt numbers in many parts of South Australia are in plague proportion. She says today she heard that the National Park Service says culling them at Coffin Bay National Park on lower Eyre Peninsula. Faraway says culling the animals in national parks is done to limit ecological restoration of the national park or preventing damage to vegetation in the park. She says human modification has changed the natural balance of species. She says some species are present in larger numbers than before which is bad for threatened species. She says culling takes place with the National Animal Welfare Standards under the Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos.
Interviewee: Lisa Faraway, ecologist, Department of Environment and Heritage.